Agreed. Half the sites I click on, or old ones I love and go to look at from time to time have been killed. It doesn't even make sense, actual sites that people like are being killed while 2 star and below sites with, say, 3 views just sit there. What sparked this mass killing anyways? I say stop killing our YTMNDs, do what really needs to be done. Ban DR-1337, marshall, and sexymofo, work on an interchangable skin option, just do something productive rather than delete some of our old favorite sites.

The irony of this YTMND is that it still is just as potent even if it's killed :D... all joking aside though, all this killing needs to stop... I've been at YTMND for a LONG time, and I've seen more killed sites in the last month than I have over the years I've been here

â—„From what I understand killed sites can be unkilled by their creators, so everyone needs to begin PMing users that their sites have been killed if they want them unkilled. This site made me lol btw.

I feel a great disturbance in the YTMND Database, as if millions of sites suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I'd say about 10% of the Hall of Fame YTMND's were killed by moderators. I support this message.

oh, well yes I suppose that does have something for it... but still, if you think the mod's position isn't right in some regaurd then you actually are on the same side as I... I just don't think the situation is hopeless

Ya know the samething happen to me with one of my ytmnds and it's this one.
http://jamesgay.ytmnd.com/
What baffles me the most is that this is one of my best ytmnds that I've made so far since it got really high ratings and views. This is one reason why ytmnd is going downhill is because it's becoming less independent than ever.
However, they're is one way to bypass that message and it's simple. Just reupload your site again without making any changes at all and that's how I got my site up again! :P

It's hopeless because user after user pitches a fit about the mods and their varying standards but max doesn't set out any guidelines. He just doesn't get involved until someone whines that their CONAN SNAPES N*GG*KHAN site was killed, and then he de-mods the guy. Mods were doing the same thing as Adverb all over the place, but because everyone hates Adverb, he takes the fall.

Just because that's the path that has been taken in the past is no guarantee that it will be the one taken forever. Opinions change, even Max’s. Not that I'm forcing it down anyone's gullet, but it makes sense.

There are a couple of sites that I used to go to for laughter, now they're dead. There was even one that made fun of WoW players, but I bet a mod deleted it because of their blind hatred of WoW, even if its intention was comedy towards it.

Quit your whining. The only reason why people APPROVE of this site and its message is because they DISAPPROVE of some of the decisions of the mods, which is bound to happen unless they didn't kill at all. Ever wonder if there's a REASON for every kill, and that it's independent of page views/score? This is not a democracy. Max chooses mods. Mods moderate based on their own judgement. If Max does not approve of their work, he un-mods them. That's the way it works. If you don't like it, go to 4chan.

Responces in order. Please show me where I was whining. Yes that's the point. There isn't always a good reason, but for those there IS I'm all for it. It is independant, it just seems wrong to kill a site for no obvious reason after its recives thousands of hits and hundreds of votes. I never said it was a democracy, you did. That he does. That they do. That he should. That it is. Also I do go to 4chan. By the way I love how you refute points I never even made, very convincing :P

AMEN!!! If the site sucks, we'll downvote it. Deleting it just because it sucks doesn't save anyone anytime since it still shows up, and since you can still view the deleted sites I can't figure out WTF they were deleted for in the first place other than sucking. >:|

I think some mods are doing it because they either 1: Hate YTMND, or 2: Are jealous of good site creators. Now, thay have just gone too far, and we, as the people of YTMND, won't stand for it! The killing must stop right now!

Don't tell me what to do! Actually, one of my sites (blatant whoring: madmaxgoldberg.ytmnd.com) fell victim to this, I fired off a quick e-mail saying it wasn't against the rules, and it was back the next day. 4 for instructions to people who don't have the balls to defend their own work.

^ "That he does. That they do. That he should. That it is." ... best comment evar ... also, I had a site killed by Andre and I didn't complain. I knew it would come back. Thanks to SocialDemocracy btw, and also thanks to social democracy.

Max, the admins, and everyone in the employ of ytmnd can do whatever the f*ck they want to do to your ytmnd's. They own it, they pay for it, you're in their yard. You signed no contract, you're paying no monthly service fee. If you don't like it, leave.

If you've ever been in YTMND vent you'd know that alot of the time some of the mods that hang out in their all agree they hate fads. Now that they have the power to kill sites it isn't going to matter if its following the ToU and such.

It's irrelevant whether Max can or can't delete these sites himself or appoint people to delete these sites. Likewise, we can just not come anymore. This is a way of getting Max's attention that we are unsatisifed with these arbitrary deletions. If he doesn't, some people might leave.
Sure, he can delete these sites all he wants. He can delete the whole of YTMND if he wants. It's just that he'll have less people here if he does.

oh sh*t... the comment lags...
When I submitted my first comment, it showed up right away, and I could see it. When I submitted the subsequent comment, I couldn't see it, so I assumed something had gone wrong. My apologies... delete the last 6 of those please.

I strongly agree with Mewchu on this one, along with most of you guys. Even before I read this, I noticed the overly large amount of killed YTMNDs and I was like, "Wtf?" and I had the idea that mods were killing them by personal taste, so yeah, I agree with it completely. Plus, Nobody, if you're smart, you'd have read the status bar before clicking on it, as it clearly said, "butkillednevertheless.ytmnd.com".

Every site that I've seen deleted either contained a shocking, unrelated image to the YTMND title, hadn't been viewed but a dozen times within the last YEAR, or, as is obvious, clearly crossed the line in the ToU. Also, the f*cking "Site Deleted" paragraph says that you are allowed to contest your site's deletion with a moderator. So, good f*cking waste of your $35, c*ckf*g.

I had a site killed that was not against TOU. E-mailed them about it, never heard back. Moral of the story: Who gives a sh*t. Mods will do what they want because they want to. That's all there is to it.

A lot of killed sites are old worthwhiles by authors who no longer vist and therefore can't edit it back to normal. That and the fact that a mod that really cared would probably just kill it again tells me it's not that viable of a solution. Better to stop this crap before it comes to that.

i can honestly say I'm tired of READING ytmnds. why aren't they funny anymore? now they're just chock full of useless information and really not funny things. I cannot die with this going on in life. But then again I can, lol.

Max (who, by the way, has the highest kill rate) has told us what the rules for modding are, and it has almost nothing at all to do with the ToU. If you can't make a site that doesn't have a blatant cuss word / racist / sexual/ drug / whatever reference in it, then you need to gtfo or stop whining. I'm glad your boss is so nice, but most of them, including the advertisers', are not, and would fire people for sites like that. We only kill illegal sites anyway (porn). Anything else gets NSFW'd.

Also, reread that message. Note that, in Max's own words, "or it just plain sucks" is an applicable reason. Max and a select few like adverb (who has left YTMND) and inkdrinker are pretty much the only mods who do that, because most other mods are too scared that they'll get their mod privlages revoked anyway.

TheRaven7 - keep in mind that a site "sucking" is first and foremost an opinion. Personally I think there should be an appeals process for killing sites for this reason, especially BEFORE they are killed. Everyones idea of funny is different and some people are square and just have issues grasping stuff. Except WoW sites, they are just gay.

Yes, it is an opinion. But for some reason people are yelling at mods who they *think* are killing based on taste, wihle completely shielding Max WHO MAKES THE RULES as if he is totally innocent. Remember when the Myspace Suicide fad exploded? Max gave us all permission to start killing myspace sites because he hated them. I never did, but plenty of other mods did. So once again, Max tells us the guidelines, and just because he doesn't announce everyone or add it to the ToU doesn't mean they don't apply.